Golf Features

Top-100 Spotlight: Pacific Harbour Golf & Country Club

Top-100 Spotlight: Pacific Harbour Golf & Country Club

Queensland’s Bribie Island is all sand. And there is nothing a golf course architect likes more than being presented with a blank canvas of sandy terrain to gently poke and prod into a spectacular layout. 22 Dec 2022
Opinion: It’s just the vibe of the thing

Opinion: It’s just the vibe of the thing

It is one of the quintessential moments of Australian cinema when Dennis Denuto utters the immortal line “It’s just the vibe of the thing” during the 1997 film The Castle. 22 Dec 2022
Opinion: Royal Melbourne just gets it

Opinion: Royal Melbourne just gets it

The host venue is one of the crucial elements of tournament golf that if done well can go unnoticed. But in the case of the Sandbelt Invitational is one of the key tenets for the Geoff Ogilvy/Mike Clayton shared vision. 20 Dec 2022
Morri: The other side to the Aussie Open debate

Morri: The other side to the Aussie Open debate

What does the future hold for the nation’s two most important golf tournaments? 20 Dec 2022
Holiday at home: Hunter with a big game

Holiday at home: Hunter with a big game

From the rolling hills of the Hunter Valley wine country, to Newcastle’s beachside suburbs and north to the holiday haven of Port Stephens, New South Wales’ Hunter region is a golfer’s playground. 15 Dec 2022
Review: Bribie Island Golf Club

Review: Bribie Island Golf Club

La Nina wreaked havoc right along the east coast of Australia at different times during 2022. 14 Dec 2022
Tested: Trackman 3e launch monitor

Tested: Trackman 3e launch monitor

Trackman is the most widely known launch monitor brand – hugely popular with Tour pros and world-renowned teachers. We put one to the test. 14 Dec 2022
Morri: Game for the ages

Morri: Game for the ages

It’s something we too often take for granted but the ability to play golf into later years – even at a high level – is one of the game’s greatest appeals. 12 Dec 2022
Morri: A legendary reminder of the Sandbelt’s greatness

Morri: A legendary reminder of the Sandbelt’s greatness

There has been no shortage of critical analysis of last week’s Australian Opens and that’s as it should be. 5 Dec 2022
The story of ‘Chook’ – golf’s greatest grinder

The story of ‘Chook’ – golf’s greatest grinder

If there was a time-lapse camera on the practice range at the Australian Open this week, the one constant in its focus would be the hulking figure of 63-year-old Peter Fowler. 1 Dec 2022
Karrie’s Open Road

Karrie’s Open Road

The Women’s Australian Open and its greatest champion, five-time winner Karrie Webb, were born in the same year, 1974. Destiny perhaps? It just might be, for the stories of both have been intertwined from that time. 29 Nov 2022
Morri: Colosseum a grim reminder of fractured golf’s fragile future

Morri: Colosseum a grim reminder of fractured golf’s fragile future

Sometimes the most interesting things historians have to say are not about the past but the future. 28 Nov 2022
Memories of Aussie Tour past

Memories of Aussie Tour past

It started with a gift and ended in storytelling, surprise and a special mini reunion. 27 Nov 2022
Morri: LPGA’s own goal at season finale

Morri: LPGA’s own goal at season finale

Lydia Ko’s victory at the final event of the season in Florida was a fitting end to what has been a captivating year of golf on the LPGA. 21 Nov 2022
Holiday at Home: South of the Swan

Holiday at Home: South of the Swan

When you have been sitting on a plane for two hours, the first movie has been watched, you’re into your second in-flight snack and the flight tracker map shows you’re not quite halfway, there is a realisation Perth is a long way away. 17 Nov 2022
Morri: New rules reinforce the same public golf message

Morri: New rules reinforce the same public golf message

It didn’t attract much fanfare, but last week’s announcement that specific rules have been introduced for golfers with a disability may be the most important thing to happen in the game for years. 14 Nov 2022
Morri: In appreciation of Karrie

Morri: In appreciation of Karrie

A quarter of a century ago one of our greatest ever golfers, Peter Thomson, wrote something that today could easily be applied to one of our other greatest ever players, Karrie Webb. 7 Nov 2022
Morri: Genuinely growing the game

Morri: Genuinely growing the game

The wheels of change turn slowly in golf, especially in a digital age where we demand – and receive – so much instant gratification. 31 Oct 2022
Lebanon has only one golf course but two proud AAC competitors

Lebanon has only one golf course but two proud AAC competitors

The Lebanese are a proud people. 27 Oct 2022
Morri: A timely reminder of Lydia’s brilliance

Morri: A timely reminder of Lydia’s brilliance

What an interesting scene unfolded on the final green of the LPGA’s BMW Ladies Championship at Oak Valley Country Club in South Korea at the weekend. 24 Oct 2022
Holiday At Home: Go Troppo!

Holiday At Home: Go Troppo!

Tropical North Queensland is a special part of the world. 24 Oct 2022